Volterrano
Subtitle: Baldassarre Franceschini (1611-1690)
By: Maria Cecilia Fabbri, Alessandro Grassi, Riccardo Spinelli ; biografia di Mina Gregori ; fotografie di Irene Taddei
Publisher: Edifir Edizione
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: ita
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9788879706018
Subjects: Catalogues raisonnés; Criticism and interpretation
Description: Born in Volterra (Volterra 1611-Florence 1690), but Florentine by adoption and of art education, Baldassarre Franceschini was the main Baroque painter of the seventeenth-century Florence, the only one who knew how to interpret, in an original and not slavish, the language "modern" came to Florence from Rome with Pietro da Cortona. Protected by the Medici and the main families of Florence and Tuscany, in the time (and the most important religious orders), the Volterra had a long career, which lasted sixty years, crowned with important commissions, and public recognition. First of the Tuscan Grand Duchy in the capital to introduce the magnificence and grandeur of the Baroque capitol, the artist was able to develop its own version, do not forget the local tradition that saw a moment in the drawing creative imperative. The Volterra came under the Medici, receiving from Don Lorenzo, the brother of Grand Duke Cosimo II, the important task of decorating the courtyard of the villa Petraia. Since then, the career of the painter never stopped, studded with study trips in major art capitals (Parma, Bologna, Venice, Rome), in constant search of a language is always new and updated. The fruits of these multiple experiences are verifiable in both large complex frescoes, easel is in the works, in which the artist gave proof of a solid understanding of the sources of literature, history, myth, sacred texts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-400) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Volterrano (Baldassarre Franceschini) Volterra (Pisa) 1611-Firenze 1690 / Maria Cecilia Fabbri; title: Come dal germe ai suoi perfetti giorni / Alessandro Grassi; title: Dagli affreschi della Petraia al "Cristo confortato dali angeli" in Santa Teresa / Riccardo Spinelli; title: Elementi di novità e di sperimentazione stilistica nella pittura del Volterrano lungo la fase centrale / Maria Cecilia Fabbri; title: Gli anni estremi tra pensieri sublimi e devoti pennelli / Alessandro Grassi; title: Catalogo